Worst job you ever had...

[OilersBaby]

What is the worst job you've ever had?

Mine was scooping ice cream for one of the major ice cream places. It wouldn't have been so bad except I worked in the middle of winter and in Fort McMurray...we didnt have too many customers and when we did, it would be FREEZING in there from the door opening and closing and snow would fly in. BRRRRRR.

Maybe thats why I ended up moving to sunny California.

[Displaced Flames fan]

KFC sophomore and junior year of high school. $3.35/ hr.

[Bend it like Bourgeois]

Hazardous Waste transfer plant.

The good days were sorting through giant oil rig garbage bins to sort the recyclables (and throw out some rig pigs month old lunch)

The bad days were spent in full gear outside in the summer heat or mud, cleaning the containers the goopy crap comes in.

Close second was door to door vacuum salesman.

[Rhettzky]

I worked for Fiesta Party Rentals one summer and it was brutal. They'd rent dishes out to wedding receptions and we'd get the dishes back two or three days later, still dirty and have to wash them. They were completely caked with crud and they stunk. Also had to clean various rental machines (popcorn, cotton candy, etc...) and they'd be just caked and have to be severly scrubbed. After about two weeks I was out of there.

Another bad one was working at Standens doing general clean-up on the weekends while going to SAIT. Shoveling steel flakes and bits of steel from the punch machines was bad... but they had huge vats of oil in the basement that the weekday workers would toss the leaf springs in after they were formed to cool down. On the weekends we'd empty the oil out and have to shovel the oily steel flakes out of a 10'x10' bin (by climbing right in due to the small size of the doors) and bring it out of the basement in buckets. By the time I got home I stunk like I took an oil bath and no amount of showering seemed to get rid of the oily feeling.

[Rathji]

I hacked apart dead cows.

[Eastern Girl]

Three way tie between working at BK, Walmart and a lingerie store.

BK - because I would always leave feeling really greasy. I also suffered a couple of bad burns while working there.

Wal-mart - because people suck.

Lingerie store - because men coming in their wives/girlfriends, still hitting on you and other employees is really gross, creepy and sad.

[spydermal]

Originally Posted by Rathji

I hacked apart dead cows.

Did you get to try the anus vacuum?

[jammies]

Lumberjack. Chainsaws and early mornings - no thanks!

[Bagor]

In a large industrial bakery as a student.

Had to lift the empty pans off and stack them as they came out of a huge oven on a conveyor belt.

Wore cloth sacks for gloves and was burned regularly. After 2 weeks I looked as if I'd made multiple attempts to top myself with all the burn marks up my inside arms. Temperature was always well above 100 and H & S dictated that we had to take a 15 minute break every hour. Money was brillant though helped by our supervisor signing our clocking in card for a couple hours overtime/day.

Would get the occasional days respite where me and other chap had the responsibility of putting the crosses on hot x buns. Complex stuff.

[Engine09]

10 years ago I was spray painting pig barns during the winter, at least the buildings were new so I didn't have to smell crap.

Had to wear steel toes, coveralls, mask, hood and vaseline around the eyes to make the overspray easy to clean off. Gas heaters ran with the exhaust straight into the building and to top it off I was spraying oil based paint, the environment was absolutely toxic. Should have changed my cartridges more often than I did. 10 hour days walking on cement while aiming the spray gun over my head.

[Phanuthier]

Originally Posted by Eastern Girl

Lingerie store - because men coming in their wives/girlfriends, still hitting on you and other employees is really gross, creepy and sad.

They actually hit on you while their wife/girlfriend was trying on lingerie? That's hilarious.

Worst jobs for me were data entry, system level engineering design and one other I'll keep quiet so I don't burn any bridges. I just didn't feel the sense of accomplishment in any of those, and one of the things that really annoyed me on any sort of system level engineering was they talk in code and I have no idea what they're talking about. But out of them, I realized system level engineering just wasn't me so I guess here I am pursuing a career in high tech. The best job I actually got was an internship with the canadian military as a civilian contractor to do some designs and testing for their instrumentation of F-18's. Almost got to ride in one of those, but my waivers didn't clear in time so I got a fun ride on the Griffen Helicopter. That was a blast. I also found a new love for flying (want to get my flying license one day) and a new found respect for the great men and women in the Canadian armed forces.

[Eastern Girl]

Originally Posted by Phanuthier

They actually hit on you while their wife/girlfriend was trying on lingerie? That's hilarious.

Kinda sad, really.

From the second they walked in the store, you could tell they were going to be that guy. Usually, the wife/girlfriend would be draped over him, trying to show affection, and he would be trying to shrug her off, maybe chatting on his cell phone or something. You knew the second she was out of sight, he'd be hitting on the first living breathing woman he saw.

[Coach]

Calaway park.....dont judge me

[Superflyer]

Selling vacuums door to door.

Selling misc crap door to door.

Selling perfume on the street.

That was the worst two months of work ever

[CaptainCrunch]

Filling ice bags 10 hours a day non stop.

The ice machine company that I worked for didn't use machines to fill the bags. You had to use a scoup to fill the bags then weigh it, then walk it over to a freezer.

It wasn't hard work, but it was mind numbing.

[Eastern Girl]

Ugh, anything door to door would suck immensely, I would think. Getting doors slammed in your face, or perhaps women home alone being afraid or cautious of you...

[Sainters7]

I was living on Vancouver Island 4 years ago on an unpaid internship with weird hours, so the only way I could work was through a temp agency whenever I got a chance. I ended up at a restoration company, and one day they sent us to pull off all the lining underneath this one motorhome which had been flooded. It was so tight underneath you could barely move, and they seriously gave each of us a hammer to fend away massive spiders and rats that were under there(did I mention I'm arachnophobic and claustrophobic?). The job was so bad that my boss actually offered to get me high before I went under there.

After half an hour of having rats brush by my hair while having mini panic attacks due to the severely enclosed space, I finally got out from under the trailer and told him I couldn't do it. He was unimpressed and I knew I could never work there again, but I was fine with it. Awful awful.

[Phanuthier]

Originally Posted by Eastern Girl

Kinda sad, really.

From the second they walked in the store, you could tell they were going to be that guy. Usually, the wife/girlfriend would be draped over him, trying to show affection, and he would be trying to shrug her off, maybe chatting on his cell phone or something. You knew the second she was out of sight, he'd be hitting on the first living breathing woman he saw.

Sorry, don't mean it in an offensive way. Just... if i were ever in a lingerie store with a girlfriend, there would be no one else in the store. If they're not interested, wonder why they're even with the girl. Sort of wonder why these girls stay with these guys, must be Stockholm syndrome.

[Eastern Girl]

Originally Posted by Phanuthier

Sorry, don't mean it in an offensive way. Just... if i were ever in a lingerie store with a girlfriend, there would be no one else in the store. If they're not interested, wonder why they're even with the girl. Sort of wonder why these girls stay with these guys, must be Stockholm syndrome.

I didn't take it in an offensive way. Despite recent threads, I don't get offended easily.

I was just commenting on how it would break my heart, seeing these lovely women with these guys who were probably feeding them lines to keep them around, telling them they love them, etc. before they run off to the next chick. I think they just really want to believe what they say, and they just leave it at that. I don't know...

To keep it on topic, I also had a job very briefly as a market researcher, phoning people to do surveys. I lasted half a shift, before quitting. People were awful.

[Julio]

Outside sales...I can sell to people, but hated, hated cold calling, both on the phone and in person.